Report: CIA Had Role In Recruiting German Double Agent

The Central Intelligence
Agency was involved in a spying operation against Germany that led
to the alleged recruitment of a German intelligence official and has prompted
renewed outrage in Berlin,
two U.S.
officials familiar with the matter said on Monday.

CIA Director John Brennan
has asked to brief key members of the U.S. Congress on the matter, which
threatens a new rupture between Washington and a close European ally, one of
the officials said.

It was unclear if and when Brennan's
briefing to U.S.
lawmakers would take place. The CIA declined any comment on the matter.

The office of Germany's
Federal Prosecutor, based in the western city of Karlsruhe, late last week issued a statement
saying that a 31-year old man had been arrested on suspicion of being a foreign
spy, and that investigations were continuing. The statement offered no further
details.

German politicians have said that the
suspect, an employee of the country's foreign intelligence service, admitted
passing to an American contact details concerning a German parliamentary
committee's investigation of alleged U.S. eavesdropping disclosed by Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the U.S. National Security Agency.

The U.S. officials who confirmed the
CIA's role spoke on condition of anonymity, and offered no further details.

"The relationship that the United States has with Germany is
incredibly important. This is a very close partnership that we have on a range of
security issues, including some intelligence issues," Earnest said.
"All of those things are high priorities not just to this administration,
but to this country. So we're going to work with the Germans to resolve this
situation appropriately."

Snowden's revelations last year, which
included evidence that the NSA was targeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel's
personal cell phone, frosted U.S.-German relations. The White House agreed to
stop targeting Merkel, but rejected Berlin's
pleas for a wider "no spy" pact.

The latest case risks further straining
ties.

"If the reports are correct it would
be a serious case," Merkel told a news conference in Beijing, standing next to Chinese Premier Li
Keqiang. "If the allegations are true, it would be for me a clear
contradiction as to what I consider to be trusting cooperation between agencies
and partners."

German media reported that the suspected
spy, who has not been named, had first been detained on suspicion of contacting
Russian intelligence agents, but then admitted he had worked with the
Americans. The suspect worked for Germany's Federal Intelligence
Service, known by the German initials BND.

While historically close, U.S. intelligence ties to Germany became
strained over the last year in the wake of the Snowden revelations.

Snowden took refuge in Moscow
last year after leaking tens of thousands of highly classified U.S.
intelligence documents to media organizations.

SUSPICIONS

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter
Steinmeier, who was on a trip to Mongolia
while Merkel was in China,
said the spying case would have consequences if the circumstances are
confirmed.

"We haven't finished clearing this up
yet. But if suspicions are confirmed that American secret services were
involved, it will become a political issue and we can't just get back to
business as usual," he told reporters in Ulan Bator.

Surveillance is a sensitive issue in a
country where memories of the Nazi's Gestapo secret police and communist East Germany's
Stasi ensure the right to privacy is treasured.

Speaking in Berlin, Snowden's lawyer in
Germany, Wolfgang Kaleck, said he hoped the latest allegations might eventually
help change Germany's stance towards his client, noting that European states
had profited from his information but were not prepared to protect him.

As Merkel visited China,
where she oversaw the signing of agreements involving Airbus Group NV's
helicopter division selling 100 aircraft to Chinese companies, a German
intelligence chief warned that some firms in China faced a growing threat from
industrial espionage by Chinese government agencies with huge resources.

"Germany is against that -
regardless of where it comes from," Merkel said, in reference to
industrial espionage.

"We have a duty as the state to protect
our economy ... We are for the protection of intellectual property."

China's premier repeated his government's
denial that it was involved in such activities.

"China
and Germany,
it can be said, are both victims of hacking attacks. The Chinese government
resolutely opposes hacking attacks as well as the use of the internet to steal
commercial secrets or intellectual property," Li said.

"China will engage in dialogue and
consultation to protect the security of the Internet."

Edward Snowden

Edward
Snowden leaked information about the National Security Agency
(NSA), and an employee at Booz Allen Hamilton.

John
Michael McConnell was a director at the National
Security Agency (NSA), and is thevice chairman for Booz Allen Hamilton.

Richard
Wilhelm was an information warfare director for the National
Security Agency (NSA), and is theEVP for Booz Allen
Hamilton.

Philip A.
Odeen is a director at Booz Allen Hamilton,
and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).

Charles
O. Rossotti is a director at Booz Allen Hamilton,
and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).

R. James
Woolsey was a VP for Booz Allen Hamilton,
a director at the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), and is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).

Joan A.
Dempsey is the SVP for Booz Allen Hamilton,
and was a deputy director for the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA).

Steve
Isakowitz was a senior consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton,
and a senior intelligence officer for the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA).

William
H. Webster was a director at the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), and is an honorary director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).

John O.
Brennan is the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) director; former assistant to the president for
homeland security & counterterrorism at the director for the Barack Obama administration, and George J.
Tenet was his chief of staff.

George J.
Tenet was John O. Brennan’s chief of staff, a
director at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).

James
R. Schlesinger was a director at the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), and an honorary director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).

John A.
Gordon was the deputy director for the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).

Richard
R. Burt was a U.S.
ambassador for Germany,
and is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).

Rozanne
L. Ridgway was a U.S.
ambassador for Germany,
and a co-chair for the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).

Henry A. Kissinger was
the co-chairman at the American Academy in Berlin,
is a director at the American Council on
Germany, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), a member of the Bohemian Club, a
director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).

Walter
L. Cronkite was a member of the Bohemian Club, and
correspondent for the United Press International.

Richard
M. Helms was the European correspondent for the United Press
International, and a director at the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA).

George
H.W. Bush is a member of the Bohemian Club,
and was a director at the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA).

Richard
C. Holbrooke was the chairman for the American Academy in Berlin,
and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).

C. Boyden
Gray is a trustee at the American Academy in Berlin,
and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).

Wolfgang
Ischinger is a trustee at the American Academy in Berlin,
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and was
the German ambassador for the United States.

Vernon
A. Walters was a U.S.
ambassador for Germany, and a deputy
director for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Jeffrey
A. Rosen is a trustee at the American Academy in Berlin,
and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).

Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

George Soros
is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations,
and was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.

David
M. Rubenstein is a co-chairman for the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a trustee at the American
Academy in Berlin, and the president of the Economic
Club of Washington,

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. was
the president of the Economic Club of
Washington, is Valerie B. Jarrett’s
great uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).

Valerie
B. Jarrett is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Cyrus
F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and was a managing director at Booz Allen
Hamilton.

Bruce
Riedel is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), a senior fellow at the Saban Center
for Middle East Policy, and was an officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Kenneth
M. Pollack is a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle
East Policy, was a senior fellow, Middle East
policy for the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and an analyst for the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA).

Joan A.
Dempsey was a deputy director for the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), and is the SVP for Booz Allen Hamilton.

Steve
Isakowitz was a senior intelligence officer for the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), and a senior consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton.

Klaus Kleinfeld
is a director at the American Council on
Germany, a director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), a director at Bayer AG, and a
2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).

The Bayer company then became part of IG
Farben, a German chemical company conglomerate. During World War II, the IG
Farben used slave labor in factories attached to large slave labor camps,
notably the sub-camps of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.[3] IG Farben
owned 42.5% of the company that manufactured Zyklon B,[4] a chemical used in
the gas chambers of Auschwitz and other extermination camps. After World War
II, the Allies broke up IG Farben and Bayer reappeared as an individual
business. The Bayer executive Fritz ter Meer, sentenced to seven years in
prison during the IG Farben Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, was made head of the supervisory
board of Bayer in 1956, after his release.

Daley returned to the practice of law, as
a partner with the firm Mayer Brown (then Mayer, Brown & Platt) from
1993 to 1997.

William
M. Daley was a partner at Mayer Brown, the
chief of staff for the Barack Obama
administration, and is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.

Robert A.
Helman is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
a partner at Mayer Brown, and was an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank).

Konrad M.
Weis was the president & CEO for the Bayer
Corporation, a director at the Heinz Endowments,
is a trustee emeritus at the Carnegie Museums of
Pittsburgh, and a trustee emeritus for the Carnegie
Mellon University.

Teresa
Heinz Kerry is the chair for the Heinz Endowments,
a trustee at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, a life
trustee at the Carnegie Mellon University,
an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to U.S.
Department of State secretary John F. Kerry.

Andrew
Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Museums of
Pittsburgh, the endowed predecessor schools for the Carnegie Mellon University,
the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of
New York, and the founder of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Norman
Pearlstine is a trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of
New York, and was the president & CEO for the American Academy in Berlin.

Vartan
Gregorian is the president of the Carnegie Corporation of
New York, and a trustee at the American Academy in Berlin.

Alger Hiss
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank), accused of espionage, and attended
the Yalta Conference with FDR.

Joseph
Stalin attended the Yalta Conference,
and thepremier for the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Gregory
B. Craig is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), was the White House
counsel for the Barack Obama administration, and Richard M. Helms lawyer.

Jon M.
Huntsman Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a
director at the National Committee on United
States-China Relations,
was a distinguished fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and the China U.S. ambassador for the Barack Obama administration.

J.
Stapleton Roy is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the National Committee on United States-China Relations, an executive board member for the United States-China Policy Foundation, and was a U.S. ambassador for China.

Jessica Tuchman Mathews
is the president of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Ed Griffin’s interview
with Norman Dodd in 1982

(The investigation into
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for
population control by involving the United States in war)

David
M. Rubenstein is a co-chairman for the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a trustee at the American
Academy in Berlin, and the president of the Economic
Club of Washington,

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. was
the president of the Economic Club of
Washington, is Valerie B. Jarrett’s
great uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).

Valerie
B. Jarrett is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Cyrus
F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and was a managing director at Booz Allen
Hamilton.

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